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Eaglescliffe is a residential town on the south bank of the Tees directly adjacent to Yarm, its Victorian streets and the older Egglescliffe village core overlooking the river from a slight rise. The Tees Valley Way riverside corridor, the churchyard limes and sycamores of St John the Evangelist at Egglescliffe, and the hawthorn hedgerows of the farmland running south toward Urlay Nook and Aislaby give bees a productive spring season. The oilseed rape on the Tees plain around Whitton and Long Newton fills supers quickly in late April.

Oilseed rape on the flat arable plain between the Tees and the Cleveland escarpment produces a heavy April to May flow, particularly around Stokesley, Stillington and the fields east of Yarm. Hawthorn and blackthorn are thick in the suburban hedgerows of Stockton, Billingham and Guisborough. Lime trees line the Victorian residential streets of Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and Redcar and carry a reliable June flow. The defining feature of the landscape is the extent of ex-industrial grassland: former ICI works at Billingham and Wilton, steelworks sites at Redcar, and colliery reclamation ground throughout are dense with bramble, rosebay willowherb and white clover from June through August. Sea buckthorn and coastal meadow wildflowers on the North Tees marshes, Coatham Sands and Huntcliff provide a distinctive supplement near the shore. The Cleveland Hills rise sharply south of Guisborough, Skelton and Loftus and carry ling heather and bilberry from late July into September — within easy reach of apiaries on the urban fringe.